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The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University
Universities are occupied by management, a regime obsessed with ‘accountability’ through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, ‘excellence’, and misconceived economic salvation. Given the occupation’s absurd side-effects, we ask ourselves how management has succeeded in taking over our pre...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4468800/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26097259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-015-9270-9 |
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description | Universities are occupied by management, a regime obsessed with ‘accountability’ through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, ‘excellence’, and misconceived economic salvation. Given the occupation’s absurd side-effects, we ask ourselves how management has succeeded in taking over our precious universities. An alternative vision for the academic future consists of a public university, more akin to a socially engaged knowledge commons than to a corporation. We suggest some provocative measures to bring about such a university. However, as management seems impervious to cogent arguments, such changes can only happen if academics take action. Hence, we explore several strategies for a renewed university politics. |
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spelling | pubmed-44688002015-06-17 The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University Halffman, Willem Radder, Hans Minerva Brief Communication Universities are occupied by management, a regime obsessed with ‘accountability’ through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, ‘excellence’, and misconceived economic salvation. Given the occupation’s absurd side-effects, we ask ourselves how management has succeeded in taking over our precious universities. An alternative vision for the academic future consists of a public university, more akin to a socially engaged knowledge commons than to a corporation. We suggest some provocative measures to bring about such a university. However, as management seems impervious to cogent arguments, such changes can only happen if academics take action. Hence, we explore several strategies for a renewed university politics. Springer Netherlands 2015-04-03 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4468800/ /pubmed/26097259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-015-9270-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Brief Communication Halffman, Willem Radder, Hans The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University |
title | The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University |
title_full | The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University |
title_fullStr | The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University |
title_full_unstemmed | The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University |
title_short | The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University |
title_sort | academic manifesto: from an occupied to a public university |
topic | Brief Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4468800/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26097259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-015-9270-9 |
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